50 Quotes by Terrance Hayes

In this we may be alike, Assassin, you & me: we believeWe want what’s best for humanity. I'll probably surviveDancing with the kinds of people who must find refugeAmong the sweat & rancor of a Fish & Chicken ShackBut Assassin, they'll probably murder you. Do you ask,Why you should die for me if I will not die for you? I do.

America, you just wanted change is all, a return To the kind of awe experiences after beholding a reign Of gold. A leader whose metallic narcissism is a reflection Of your own.

Christianity is a religion built around a fatherWho does not rescue his son. It is the storyOf a son whose father is a ghost.

No one Mentions Jesus' sister. Nothing is writtenAbout her. She had no children, she was in herForties the first time she turned water into wine.

Probably all our encounters are existentialJambalaya. Which is to say, can a nigga survive?

Possibly twilight makes blackness dangerousDarkness. Probably all my encounters Are existential jambalaya. Which is to say, A nigga can survive. Something happenedIn Sanford, something happened in FergusonAnd Brooklyn & Charleston, something happenedIn Chicago & Cleveland & Baltimore & happensAlmost everywhere in this country every day.Probably someone is prey in all of our encounters.You won't admit it. The names alive are like the namesIn graves.

Something happens everywhere in this country Every day. Someone is praying, someone is prey.

Goddamn, so this is what it means to have a leaderYou despise, the racists said when the presidentWas black and I’ll be damned if I ain’t saying it too.Is this a mandate for whiteness, virility, sovereignty,Stupidity, an idiot’s threats & gangsta narcissisms threadingEvery shabby sentence his trumpet constructs?

Nothing saddens me more Than Nigger, one whose master has no Lord.No word leaves me more graced by shame.